Yahoo! News Singapore, 29 Jul 2012Ghosts hover near him when he works, but that doesn’t bother him one bit.
They’re friends by now and he’s not afraid, shared professional gravedigger Alex Wong.
Affectionately known to his friends as “Tua Ya Pek”, a Taoist god of the spiritual underworld, Wong has been exhuming graves for the past 30 years. Often, his services are needed when the government decides to make way for development. One such project is the eight-lane highway that will cut through Bukit Brown early next year. Full story
